Need some summer reads? Check out all of the up and coming books you can’t miss.
This week, POPSUGAR gives us the inside scoop for what summer reads you can’t miss. Check out their upcoming reading list below! Some of our favorite authors are out with new novels this month, just in time for the beginning of beach season. The Da Vinci Code‘s Dan Brown is taking on Dante’s Inferno, while the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns is back with a book that travels from San Francisco to Kabul. There are also a number of promising memoirs and nonfiction titles out this month. Click through to find out what we’re adding to our reading list.
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And the Mountains Echoed
If you fell in love with Khaled Hosseini’s previous works, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, then you’ll be happy to know he’s out with a new title, And the Mountains Echoed. It is a book about family and friendships that travels from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos.
Out May 21
Inferno: A Novel
The Da Vinci Code‘s Dan Brown is back with Inferno: A Novel. This time, professor Robert Langdon turns his fascination to Dante’s Inferno. It promises to be a page-turner.
Out May 14
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave follows the glory days of MTV: 1981 to 1987. The original VJs give the inside scoop on the network and celebrities they encountered, as well as their own personal journeys.
Out May 7
The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell’s The Other Typist is about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan, the same era as The Great Gatsby.
Out May 7
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, is a behind-the-scenes look at the groundbreaking show. And it follows the female writers who used their own lives as inspiration.
Out May 7
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands is the first volume in an authorized biography of the late British prime minister. Author Charles Moore interviewed the iron lady herself, as well as her family, for the book and had access to her private and professional papers.
Out May 21
The Ear of the Heart: An Actress’ Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows
In 1963, successful actress Dolores Hart decided to quit Hollywood and become a nun. In The Ear of the Heart: An Actress’ Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows, she chronicles the spiritual journey.
Out May 7
Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier looks into how technology is revolutionizing our culture in his insightful new book, Who Owns the Future?
Out May 7
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel
Chechnya has been in the news lately, and Anthony Marra’s new book, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel, will bring you to a snow-covered village in the Russian republic, where a father is trying to save the life of his hunted child.
Out May 7
Red Moon
Red Moon, by Benjamin Percy, uses a family of werewolves to tell the story of a struggle for equal rights.
Out May 7
Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction — and My Own
In Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction — and My Own, Morning Joe‘s Mika Brzezinski writes honestly about her unhealthy relationship with food and her obsession with staying thin. She also tries to assess America’s obsession with food, with the help of experts in medicine, health, business, the arts, and politics.
Out May 7
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